Commissioners and assistant commissioners and press secretaries and about a zillion other folks found some excuse to be in City Hall at 9 a.m. on an otherwise boring August Friday, reports DN City Hall Bureau Chief Adam Lisberg.
Why? A protest? Contentious bill that needed voting down? High-level closed-door meeting?
Nope. Even the occasion was even more important than any of that: The newest member of the Jets, Brett Favre, was in the house to receive an official welcome from Mayor Bloomberg.
Bloomberg generously allowed the four City Council members who showed up - Joseph Addabbo, Erik Martin Dilan, Michael McMahon and Larry Seabrook - to stand behind Favre, Jets owner Woody Johnson and GM Mike Tannenbaum during the Blue Room press conference.
"You guys don't normally come here," Bloomberg said, looking over his shoulder at the Council members.
As the event ended and Bloomberg walked out, the councilmen swarmed Favre, all jockeying for a chance to shake his hand. Seabrook handed him a football to sign.
"Paid for it myself," a beaming Seabrook said.
He was less forthcoming when asked by Lisberg if he planned to keep the signed ball or sell it on eBay.
"Uh-oh," the councilman said. "Uh-oh."
Asked again....He again didn't answer.
